Monday, October 28, 2013

Jamoca Almond Cream Cheese Frosting

Do you ever catch yourself saying something that you really don't
want to say, but before you can stop yourself it has already come out of your
mouth, and is hanging in the air, much to your chagrin? This happened to me. I
chalk it up to temporary insanity. As I may have mentioned, after three and a
half years on the market, our 121-year-old Victorian-style farmhouse finally
sold. Now, during the last eighteen months, Mr. O.P. has been keeping the fires
burning, as it were, at the old place, and I've been living it up, albeit
austerely, at the new one. I began to like it. A lot. Queen of my own
castle has always been a dream of mine, a clear, clutter-free castle has been
another one. Well people, all of this was dashed last week when the mister and
his two hundred boxes of God-knows-what, plus his monster-size pieces of
antique furniture descended upon me and, well,myhouse. It has been a
logistical nightmare. He is Oscar to my Felix. He is hoarder to my declutterer.
At the moment, living in what now looks to be a warehouse of boxes, lining the
walls, startling my poor Subaru in what used to be an empty garage, filling the
storage area in the basement to capacity (I pray that we don't overload a
circuit because only a trained monkey would be able to reach the circuit box.),
I find myself completely off my game. So I suppose, with all of this mess
it shouldn't surprise me that I found myself, mid conversation, inviting a
group of people over for a party to watch Game 4 of the World Series! What was
I thinking?

So, yesterday after stumbling out of bed, drinking
way too much coffee, and carelessly brushing my teeth (I do think I managed to
get every other one), I found myself in the kitchen, playing “Beat the
Clock,” madly whipping up dishes to suit every palate. What I failed to
consider was, umm, dessert. Between innings I remembered a box of Ghiradelli
Double Chocolate Brownie Mix hiding in the pantry. I stirred the
ingredients together and popped it into the oven. Then I reminded myself that I
have long wanted to come up with a chocolate version of cream cheese frosting.
Half loopy with fatigue, and remembering (why, at this moment, I do not know)
that my favorite Baskin Robbins ice cream flavor used to be Jamoca Almond Fudge
(do they still sell that?) I created this one. Chocolate, almond, espresso
powder, and cream cheese. All of my favorite flavors rolled into one. I'm glad
I made extra because I have a midnight date with a bowl and a spoon.

Give it a try and see what you think. You can pump
up the almond or espresso powder, to suit your tastes, or eliminate one or the
other, or both. The chocolate and cream cheese alone carry this delicious,
easy-to-spread frosting that turned my simple brownies into something special.

9 comments:

Coffee certainly helps when we need a boost. Your inspiration for these brownies is so creative! The photo is very tempting and to bad we can' t reach in and take a bite! Chocolate and the added almond plus cream cheese makes it yummy!

Oh my word, this looks and sounds so delicious. Thanks tons for the recipe. I would love for you to link up to my Inspire Me party that will be live today at 2:30 PT. www.astrollthrulife.net Hope to see you there. Hugs, Marty

Wow they look terrific and I know that they are to die for. Hope you had a great World Series party and I know the brownies were a hit.So glad that you sold your home, but now putting all that stuff away - what a job. Hopefully Mr. will throw away a lot of stuff.Have a terrific week and count to 10.Mary

Pattie, Your commentary is as tasty as your desserts :) I remember Jamoca Almond Fudge but have no idea if it's still around~ love the combo of flavors in your frosting and yay for the convenience of Ghiradelli Brownies!

Okay, so it is almost 1AM, I've had a very crazy day and lo and behold I can honestly say I am Queen of the Castle tonight. Pattie I do understand:) (marion of course has a way of piling unwanted things in the living room but that's different, right?)

I can't think of a better way to calm those jitters and say to heck with the company if they don't admit to loving every single bite! I know I sure would, right NOW!

Thanks so much for linking up with "Try a New Recipe Tuesday." I hope you will be able to join us again this week. http://our4kiddos.blogspot.com/2013/11/try-new-recipe-tuesday-november-5.html Also, on the post, it mentions that I was nominated in 2 categories (including recipes!) in the homeschool mom blog awards. I would really appreciate your support.

Oh my, these sound DELISH! I can SO sympathise with you, we moved into this new house 13 months ago and also had a mountain of boxes to go through and unpack. Luckily, I had EVERY box labeled as to what was in it and where it went. After we moved in we went to Lowes:(we should have bought stock in the company first), and bought and put together about 15-20 large, strong shelving units for the basement. What a Godsend!!!!!!!!! Now everythingis organized and accessable down ther. It was a daughting task but we did it and are living pretty clutter free now!!!! PS, our old house still isn't sold either:(:(:( I can not imagine going through 3 plus years. God bless you!